Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission Meeting

Special Meeting
July 1, 2025 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: Robert Street Room 1A - Directions

Agenda

Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment

The Metropolitan Council acknowledges that the land we currently call Minnesota and specifically the seven-county region is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota Oyate who are present and active contributors to our thriving region. As part of the Metropolitan Council’s commitment to address the unresolved legacy of genocide, dispossession, and settler colonialism and the fact that government institutions, including the Metropolitan Council, benefitted economically, politically, and institutionally after the forceable removal of the Dakota Oyate, the Metropolitan Council is dedicated to instilling Land, Water, and People Commitments in regional policy. These commitments support the Dakota Oyate, the eleven federally recognized Tribes in Minnesota, Ho-Chunk Nation, and the American Indian Communities representing over 150 diverse Tribal Nations that call the seven-county region home.


Call to order

  1. Dakota Land, Water, and People Acknowledgment
  2. Approval of the agenda
  3. Approval of June 5, 2025, Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission minutes

Public invitation

Invitation to interested persons to address the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission. Pre-register at [email protected]. Each speaker is limited to a three-minute presentation.


Business – 45 Minutes

  1. 2025-161, Annual Metropolitan Regional Parks Operation & Maintenance Allocation (Nicole Clapp, 651-602-1723)
  2. 2025-162, Blakeley Bluffs Park Reserve, Park Acquisition Opportunity Fund Award (Riesgraf), Scott County (Jessica Lee, 651-602-1621)
  3. 2025-163, Lake Rebecca Park Reserve, Park Acquisition Opportunity Fund Award (Van Horn), Three Rivers Park District (Kevin Phan, 651-602-1333)

nformation – 60 minutes

  1. 2024 Regional Parks and Trails System Annual Use Estimate (Ismael Ramirez, 651-602-1831)
  2. Imagine 2050 Regional Parks and Trails Policy Plan Performance Measurement Update (Colin Kelly, 651-602-1361 and Kevin Phan, 651-602-1333)

Reports

  1. Chair
  2. Committee Members
  3. Council Liaison
  4. Staff

Adjournment

Key:
*           Agenda item changed following initial publication
 

Committee information

Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission

Committee contact:

Sandi Dingle
[email protected]
651.602.1312